Re: insert-char as alias to ucs-insert

[René Kyllingstad]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:

Leo <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2012-07-12 22:00 +0800, René Kyllingstad wrote:
>> I have a hard time remembering the name of ucs-insert. What about adding a
>> insert-char alias?
>>
>> 2012-07-12  René Kyllingstad  <address@hidden>
>>
>> * international/mule-cmds.el (insert-char): New alias.
>
> I don't think this is worth it.
>
> You can put any aliases in your .emacs. BTW, insert-char is a C
> primitive.

Happily, ucs-insert has the same arglist as insert-char.  So we could
make insert-char interactive, with an interactive spec that performs the
ucs-insert character-reading magic.  Then ucs-insert could be made into
an alias for insert-char.

Patch welcome.

Patch attached.

-- René

2012-07-15  René Kyllingstad  <address@hidden>

* editfns.c (Finsert_char): Add interactive entry

          of unicode characters, moved from ucs-insert.

2012-07-15  René Kyllingstad  <address@hidden>

* international/mule-cmds.el (ucs-insert): Move interactive

 functionality to insert-char, and make this an alias.

insert-char-interactive.patch
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